A man with gripes about his bill for trash collection ended up in jail Monday night for allegedly making a threatening phone call.

The voicemail came into City Hall in Bessemer City just before 7 p.m. Friday, after office staff had left for the weekend.

A city employee heard the message around 11 a.m. Monday. Gaston County police were contacted.

The man begins the message saying he doesn’t understand why his bill for trash collection is so high. He specifically points out a $212.14 amount.

His voice quickly escalates to a profanity-littered rant. In addition to calling the recipient of the message several obscene words, the man then threatens to come down to City Hall, though he never specifically says what he intends to do.

“I might just have to come down there with some kind of something that does things to people that they don’t come back from, and use it on them,” he screamed. “Do you understand what I’m saying?”

He went on to say, “I may have to use things that do things to people that keep them from where they can’t do things anymore. So that’s what I’m going to do.”

During the message, the man gave his mother’s name and address. And he said that if he was going to be charged so heftily, he intended to dump large quantities of garbage in front of his house to make the money worth the service.